Chattanooga Suddenly Closer To Iran Than We Thought

Nuclear Terror: It might contradict geography class, but Thursday's Islamist slaying of four Marines reveals that Iran is closer to Tennessee than many think. What if the killer had had a portable atomic bomb?

The Fort Hood, Texas, shooting can no longer be considered a fluke. The killing of four Marines and wounding of others at two military facilities in Chattanooga, Tenn., follows an eerily similar pattern. Like the Fort Hood killer, alleged Chattanooga shooter Mohammad Youssuf Abdulazeez, a middle-class Kuwaiti immigrant, was well-educated and well-acclimated to American life. 

The incident is a wake-up call. As Breitbart reports, citing a Pew poll, "immigration will cause the population of U.S. Muslims to more than double ... from 2.6 million in 2010 to 6.2 million in 2030. This demographic change is entirely the product of legal admissions."

If even the tiniest fraction of these newcomers follows the path Abdulazeez is suspected of taking, it could make terrorism within America as familiar as it is to Middle East residents.

The latest Pew Research survey — conducted before the Chattanooga carnage — found that 53% of Americans are "very concerned" about Islamic extremism within the U.S. — sharply up from the 32% Pew recorded just four years ago.

No Kerry isn't Ducking to the sound of Gunfire, he adjusting 
the podium to make an announcement on the Iran deal

But the timing of the Tennessee incident raises the biggest question of all. With the U.S. giving Iran a deal that keeps it uncomfortably close to the nuclear weapons threshold for many years to come, with an inspection regime that's full of holes, what if a few of tomorrow's legal Islamist immigrants were supplied by longtime terrorist enabler Iran, or by a middleman, with a compact nuclear device?

Read the rest of the IBD editorial HERE.

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